Concerned over his “extreme sexual interests,” the leader of an internet paedophile network, Colin Blanchard Rochdale Paedophile, who persuaded women to mistreat children has failed a parole petition to be released from jail.
Considered one of Britain’s deadliest paedophiles, IT consultant Colin Blanchard was labelled “warped, wicked, dangerous, devious and manipulative” by his sentencing judge, who said his actions generated “widespread revulsion and disbelief”.
Given “in effect” a life sentence, sometimes referred to as an indefinite imprisonment for public protection, in 2011, the father-of-two from Rochdale was advised he might never be released from jail.
The panel was not happy that the release would be safe to protect the public Parole Board.
After Colin Blanchard had accepted a series of more than twenty crimes, the judge mandated that he serve a minimum of nine years behind bars before being eligible for release.
Colin Blanchard said he yearned to be released from prison in a hearing behind closed doors last month as part of his first parole review following sentence.
The Parole Board concluded, however, that his sexual inclinations were “pervasive.”
“Mr Colin Blanchardcaused severe harm to victims through his offending,” the panel remarked Thursday.
The panel decided that release at this stage would not be safe for the protection of the public after weighing the facts of his offending against the progress achieved while in detention.
According to papers recording the ruling, the 53-year-old was “not prepared to acknowledge” his emotions when he claimed to have strong sexual desires no longer.
Colin Blanchard had admitted “greater responsibility” for his actions, but the parole panel still found evidence of “minimisation and deflection” and asked whether he “truly understood his extreme sexual interests.”
“He had developed a clear preference for prepubescent children and bestiality, with, in the panel’s view, a fetish of parents having sex with their children,” the paper added.
After meeting four female associates via the internet, Colin Blanchard enlisted Vanessa George, Tracy Lyons, Tracy Dawber, and Angela Allen to sexually abuse young children and distribute pictures.
Following the discovery of child sex abuse photographs on Colin Blanchard’s computer in 2009, a work colleague informed police. Detectives subsequently identified Plymouth nursery worker George, mother-of-nine Lyons, community care worker Dawber, and former sex worker Allen as the other gang members.
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